Baratunde Thurston: Correspondent of the Future Says "The Future Is Wet" #FutureOf

Baratunde Thurston delves into technological and scientific innovations in the new television series Popular Science's Future Of, premiering on the Science Channel Monday, August 10 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT). As a comedian, political pundit, and author, he guides us through the future of play, war, sex, security, and many other topics affecting human life. In Monday's premiere episode, he will go to the MIT Media Lab to try out new technology that will shape our leisure time in the future.

PopSci talked to the man about television, the future, and defeating Michael Phelps.